Scott Dunn

Morgan, a film actress, sits alone in a restaurant a few hours before her next film will premiere in a college town's film festival. She's reserved the entire restaurant so she can have a quiet meal ahead of her premiere. Mike, the bartender, finds this arrangement and her extravagant reservation irritating as she has displaced his regular customers - his "friends" - who usually eat at the restaurant and thrown his social routine out the window. An exploration of the ways we hide our loneliness from others and ourselves. Morgan and Mike jab and deflect against each other until finally Morgan realizes Mike's loneliness is a lot like hers, and she extends to him an olive branch: sharing a plate of bacon.

**In Development**

A man resorts to disassembling bombs that lie dormant in the ruins of a city in the midst of his country's civil war. In this solo performance, we learn of the man's journey through war from his hometown to a new city that only briefly was spared. Now that the conflict and devastation has reached this town, he must once again find a way to endure. Where at first he warns residents of what's to come and how to hide from war, he rediscovers the fire of defiance in the face of oppression, and transforms the ruined community albeit briefly from a place of darkness to a beacon of light.

Danny and Samantha are estranged siblings. When Danny's son lies in a coma, Samantha instinctively finds Danny on the old family farm they inherited, seeking solitude and solace in an act of faith she can neither respect nor abide: attempting to fly, like Superman, from the loft of the barn. Samantha recriminates Danny and implores him to return to the hospital to be with his son, or else risk losing the only family each of them has left. An exploration of faith, hope, imagination, magic, forgiveness, and what it means to let go.

It's been years since Bill and May have killed someone together. But after many years on hiatus, they kill a homeless man in an alley. Invigorated by their recent kill, this elderly couple only begins to quarrel when Bill suggests they unnecessarily move this man from the alley to a nicer location for his resting place. May suspects an ulterior motive, but she'll go along with it for a short time. Where they end up is not where she expects.

A man removed himself from social media after a stretch of insult and injury fueled alcohol. In devising his return to social media, he discusses with his own profile the memories harbored in photos, how a picture is both a truth and a lie, and identity online and in real life balances truth and lies.

*current draft

Written overnight for this year's 24/7, produced by Whole Theatre (Charlottesville; Ray Nedzel, Artistic Director). Overall theme for the event, as chosen by the audience, was "Let's Get Physical". Drawing our cast breakdowns out of a hat, I was to write for three women and one man. My inspirational phrase, taken from brief interviews amongst the audience at Friday night's kickoff event, was "sharpening knives". And here's what came out of that.